Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Three: Second Lieutenant E. T. Jacques, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, late Malaya State Volunteers - in W.W.2 he was an internee at Changi and Sime Road

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut.. Shrops. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) fine and better (3) £120-150

Eric Taylor Jacques was born 12 August 1889 and educated at Cranleigh College. His home address was Ashton Court, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. As a Planter and a Private in the Malaya State Volunteers, living at the Matang Estate, Perak, Malaya, he received a commission in the 3rd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 4 April 1915. Attached to the 2nd Battalion K.S.L.I., he entered the Salonika theatre of war in December 1915. Suffering from malaria, he embarked for England in October 1916, arriving there in December. He joined the 3rd Battalion K.S.L.I. in July 1917. His medals were issued 7 July 1923.

Later he was in the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and manager of the Malang Estate, Perak from 1926. His daughter Diana married a Mr. C. U. Stafford in 1937 bringing together two of Taiping's oldest European families. In the Second World War he was an internee in Changi and Sime Road. Sadly his wife Nurse Kathleen Jacques, V.A.D., died aged 50 years, on 17 February 1942 on the S.S. Tanjong Pinang as recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, it was mainly carrying women and children. Eric died in 1973 in Ross on Wye, Herefordshire. With copied service papers and notes.